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TheBalladOfTheYellowMagicOrchestra(Y.M.O.)
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'Japanese Gentleman, Purlees Stand Up!!', shouts RYUICHI SAKAMOTO on a 'SOUL TRAIN' episode in March, 1980!
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
Song Info
Genre
R&B Funk
Charts
Peak #199
Peak in subgenre #18
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1983, 2007
Uploaded
June 16, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.0 MB 128 kbps 4:20
Story behind the song
The Yellow Magic Orchestra (or 'Y.M.O.') were HUGE--and I mean HUGE, as in the World-Wide sense. Between 1974 and 1985, they were the most amazing band in Japan (actually basing their sound on Kraftwerk's pioneering techno-pop). Of the three members, Ryuichi Sakamoto is probably the best known (one of Japan's greatest intellectual rockers/composers). To help round out "The Tokyo Connection" during the March 1982 sessions, I made this track, in Honor of the band's SECOND US TV Appearance (on "Soul Train" in March 1980, performing their version of "Tighten Up", and "Firecracker"/"Computer Game"). To balance out the musical madness of "Unless You Wanna Get On Your Knees", "Bad, Bad Children" and "Godzilla (The Big, Bad Rapper)", along with the anger of the album's Title Track and the electrical assault of "Rock And Roll In Tokyo", "The Ballad Of The Yellow Magic Orchestra" features an amazing SYMPHONIC Second Half. Mind you, even after 25 Years(and some 'change'--heh heh!), I'm STILL impressed that I produced such an instrumental effect, given the fact that I was using ONLY the Casio MT-45!!! I guess it's all about HOW you Mic and Equalize those keyboards. Anyways, after listening to the Second Half of "Y. M. O.", you will see WHY a friend of mine (from school--"Thanks, Carlton"!) called my music "Cosmic Funk"-- and WHY I Adopted that as the 'Name' of my project.
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